Next Monday a programme made by master’s students in history at the University of Iceland, called Sagan í munnlegri geymd (History in oral tradition), begins on Rás 1. There will be eight programmes, on people’s lives and events in the last century. The material comes from interviews and personal accounts kept in the sound archive of the Oral History Centre. The programmes were made under the guidance of Professor Guðmundur Jónsson and Arnþór Gunnarsson, project manager at the Oral History Centre.
The first programme is called Múlka og stúlkurnar í Reykjavík (Múlka and the girls of Reykjavík) and is presented by Kristín Svava Tómasdóttir. In it Anna Klemensdóttir, of Laufás in Reykjavík, talks about life in Reykjavík in the first decades of the 20th century, and about Múlka, the adventurous Russian girl who made her mark on town life in 1913.
The programmes are on Mondays at 20:30. The authors and subjects are as follows:
- 7 October. Kristín Svava Tómasdóttir: Múlka og stúlkurnar í Reykjavík
- 14 October. Jón Páll Björnsson: Sjósókn frá Landeyjasandi (Fishing from Landeyjasandur)
- 21 October. Sigurður Högni Sigurðsson: Ris og hnignun íslensks skipasmíðaiðnaðar (The rise and decline of Icelandic shipbuilding)
- 28 October. Jón Páll Björnsson: Sjóslys við Vestmannaeyjar 1950 (Shipwrecks off the Westman Islands, 1950)
- 4 November. Stefán Svavarsson: Uppvaxtarár í Kópavogi (Growing up in Kópavogur)
- 11 November. Sigurður Högni Sigurðsson: RARIK og rafvæðing Íslands (RARIK and the electrification of Iceland)
- 18 November. Kristín Svava Tómasdóttir: Örbylgjuofninn kemur til Íslands (The microwave oven comes to Iceland)